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Word: ideals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average U.S. woman is plumper than she would like to admit-she is 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weighs 132 Ibs. She is more interested in having a good-tempered husband than a faithful one, although she wishes he were more romantic. She believes three children constitute the ideal family, wants no babies until the second year of marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the Folks | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

That fixed 16-year-old Jake; Vines became his hero and tennis ideal. Even now, Kramer's forehand is hit with the same bent elbow Vines used; he rolls into his serves the way Vines once did. "I even tried to walk like him," Kramer says (he only half succeeded; Vines walks like an arrested Tarkington adolescent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...vomit into the hats of "Stork Club Communists." They were working together on the script of Moses Fable's preposterous musical, Will You Marry Me?-and getting nowhere. One day, driving in the San Fernando Valley, Cassard ran over and hospitalized Dirty Eddie. Cassard had found his ideal teammate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Star Is Farrowed | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...That is the hardest problem for Communists to analyze. It is very difficult to believe in any international ideal and still be a good patriot. But I certainly know I should fight for Italy. It would be a terrible thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Antagonist's Face | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Davis, Tex., had a wonderfully "steady" night. Struve trained the 82-inch reflecting telescope on the Companion of Antares. The image of the Companion trembled hardly at all. In a few rare minutes, he was able to coax it separately into a spectrograph and photograph its spectrum under almost ideal conditions without interference from the brilliant red light of nearby Antares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blue Companion | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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